Biden's energy crisis

 Katie Pavlich:

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, heating costs for American families will increase by 54 percent this winter, making it the most expensive in over a decade. Given President Biden’s statements on the 2020 campaign trail, where he launched a war on domestic energy production, this was entirely predictable.

“The Biden campaign made a clear and unequivocal campaign promise to end fossil fuel leasing on public land,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune told The Washington Post shortly after Election Day.

Just hours after his inauguration, President Biden walked into the Oval Office and issued an executive order stopping construction on the Keystone XL pipeline. One week later, he followed through on promises made to halt new oil and gas leasing on federal land. The White House justified the moves as crucial to combating climate change. Currently, the administration is considering the shutdown of the L5 pipeline that runs from Canada to Michigan, which would further limit energy transport and supply.

Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris, the most progressive member of the Senate, as running mate was also a precursor. After all, Harris endorsed the Green New Deal with socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). They also co-sponsored the Climate Equity Act.

“It’s not about a cost. It’s about an investment,” Harris said about the push in 2019.

The cost is here and Americans are paying the price.

“I must tell you. I don’t have a near-term answer,” Biden said during a recent CNN town hall when asked about energy becoming more expensive. “It’s going to be hard.”

“That is hilarious. Would that I had the magic wand on this,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told CNBC, laughing out loud when asked what her plans were to increase oil production in the U.S.


Despite claims to the contrary from Biden administration officials, the White House can control energy costs. We know this because it’s been done before.

In December 2018 and under President Trump’s leadership, the United States became a net exporter of energy for the first time in 75 years.

“The shift to net exports is the dramatic result of an unprecedented boom in American oil production, with thousands of wells pumping from the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico to the Bakken in North Dakota to the Marcellus in Pennsylvania,” Fortune reported at the time. “The shale revolution has transformed oil wildcatters into billionaires and the U.S. into the world’s largest petroleum producer, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia. The power of OPEC has been diminished, undercutting one of the major geopolitical forces of the last half century.”

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The Biden administration owns this energy crisis.  They created it and they did so knowingly and on purpose.  Every time you go by a gas station and see the prices it is a reminder of what they have done to your cost of living and it also has spurred inflation because the trucks bringing goods to market now have a higher transportation cost which is added to the cost of groceries and other items.  

Rural people are especially hard hit because they don't have public transportation to fall back on and farmers and ranchers have equipment that runs on the higher-priced fuel.  I suspect that was one of the reasons why Democrats were practially wiped out in Virginia's rural counties.  It is a good reason to vote against every Democrat on the ballot at this point.

See, also:

Consumer Price Inflation Accelerates to Fastest Rate in 31 Years